Isaiah 64 Today w/ Journalin' also

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God Bless You Today, Lena B

Isaiah 64
1Oh, that you would burst from the heavens and come down! How the mountains would quake in your presence! 2As fire causes wood to burn and water to boil, your coming would make the nations tremble. Then your enemies would learn the reason for your fame! 3When you came down long ago, you did awesome things beyond our highest expectations. And oh, how the mountains quaked! 4For since the world began, no ear has heard, and no eye has seen a God like you, who works for those who wait for him! 5You welcome those who cheerfully do good, who follow godly ways. But we are not godly. We are constant sinners, so your anger is heavy on us. How can people like us be saved? 6We are all infected and impure with sin. When we proudly display our righteous deeds, we find they are but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall. And our sins, like the wind, sweep us away. 7Yet no one calls on your name or pleads with you for mercy. Therefore, you have turned away from us and turned us over to our sins.
8And yet, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter. We are all formed by your hand. 9Oh, don't be so angry with us, LORD. Please don't remember our sins forever. Look at us, we pray, and see that we are all your people.
10Your holy cities are destroyed; even Jerusalem is a desolate wilderness. 11The holy, beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned down, and all the things of beauty are destroyed. 12After all this, LORD, must you still refuse to help us? Will you continue to be silent and punish us?


This passage to me is like a summary of a life that needs and finds rescue.
Maybe the person initially does not know of their need, or maybe they do, but not for eternal rescue, maybe more of just the pain of today’s happenings. Then it seems they realize that pain was like grace to show their true need for a life with THE Rescuer and this pull is from our great internal and more than that, eternal need to receive and to reciprocate His love.
It seems that most of us won’t know that till we see it, and the manner in which we see it, is to recognize how small we are and how great He is.
It is funny, because beyond all reasonable evidences, our worldliness tries to tell us daily how great we are. This so opposes the ability to see our eternal need. It causes us to skip over needs and try to solve our problems or hide our imperfections in self reliance and magnification in successes.
It makes it very hard to even come to God, as Father, this way, when we can do whatever it is we need. Or we are never wrong in any area, All things are acceptable in the world’s eyes, so why would man even fellowship God and His will?
Then something happens, CRASH, rock bottom, BOOM!
Man now sees better, clearer. IF He calls on God humbly now, he’ll see Him even better, enough to see for a moment who he’s been without God and the great need and void he has without living out His will.
If we are willing to confess weakness without Him, failure without Him, destruction without Him, and that we understand if we’re left to our own ways, then we will be made strong, successful, and prosperous as we find who we really are in and through Him!
All other victory is temporary and false in, and of, ourselves.
I see this writer going through a progression that leads Him to see, recognize, realize, repent and desire truth and then seek diligently the way to walk in the ways of another who is oh so much greater!
How Great is Our God. Today?
I love how with the Bible, if we attend to the words, and if we listen to do them and learn of them, we do not have to go through the same stuff…
The big question for each of us though is, are we willing to live life that way, are we mature enough to live it that way? Or do we want to take the veer off ahead and learn from our own choices and experiences, while we put God’s word on pause, while we go see what it’s like for ourselves?
If we attend to His word, seek it above all else, walk in His ways…
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